Osler's Razor

First of all, kudos to Swanburg on his excellent coverage of Baylor events of late. I heartily commend his site to those people willing to look beyond the reportings of Perez Hilton for their "news."

Second, I ran into The Poseur as he was hobbing out of the law school on crutches this evening. Getting closer, I noticed that his left leg was nothing more than a bloody stump, severed just below the knee. I asked how it happened, and he explained that after several surgeries, his leg had simply fallen off earlier in the day while playing softball. Apparently, another student picked it up in the field and the doctors tried to sew it back on, but it did not "take." I don't know what kind of discount hospital he had gone to, but they did not even seem to have properly cleaned up the resulting stump, which the poor boy had simply covered with a dirty tube sock and some exhibit stickers. Horrified, but still admiring his bravery, I gave my condolences. He would would have none of my sympathy, and just smiled proudly while announcing "But I did make it to second for a double!"

Somewhere in there is a commentary about the over-importance of sports in America, but I'm too sad to make it. Yet another young life cut down for this false god we call "softball"... what needs to happen to stop the carnage?